Alexandria BPAC Meeting – Monday, April 9, 2018

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The Alexandria Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) will be meeting at 7 pm on April 9, at the Bradlee Safeway Community Room, 3526 King Street, Alexandria.

Please join us at Monday’s Alexandria BPAC meeting, 7 to 9 PM on Monday, April 9th for a discussion of numerous volunteer opportunities, such as helping to teach ACPS elementary school students bike safety and skills, and for a discussion of Alexandria Complete Street process and project updates with Alexandria’s new Complete Streets Program Manager, Darren Buck. The complete agenda and calendar of events is provided below.

Agenda

• Introductions – Jim Durham, BPAC Chair
• Secretary’s report and minutes – Zack DesJardins, Secretary
• Financial update – Bradley Rawls, Treasurer
• Alexandria Police Liaison Discussion – Lieutenant Mike May, APD
  – Updates on recent crashes involving people walking and biking
• Guest Speaker: Darren Buck, City of Alexandria Complete Streets Program Manager
  – A new data analysis plan for complete streets major projects
  – A new community engagement tool for repaving projects
  – Safety and Accessibility during King Street-Old Town Metro Access Construction
  – Complete Streets project updates
• BPAC Sub-committee Reports and Discussion
  – Legislative and Policy subcommittee – Zack DesJardins, Chair
  – Education subcommittee – Eldon Boes, Co-Chair
  – Communications – Andrea Kirk and Bob Trencheny Co-Chairs
  – Infrastructure subcommittee – Ken Notis, Chair
• Recent Event/Discussion highlights:
  – Vision Zero Summit (March 15th) – Jim, Mary-Jane, and Casey
  – AFSS and advocacy discussion with WABA (Greg Billing and Tamara Evans) – Jim
  – Communications discussion with T&ES (March 27th) – Zack and Casey
  – Carlyle Transportation Management discussion with Janet Gregor and Tara Zimnick-Calico – Mary-Jane, Eldon and Casey
• Other BPAC Projects:
  – Bicycling in the Schools (BITS) Volunteers needed:
  o James K Polk ES 3rd grade: Mon-Thurs, April 9th to 27th 10:10 to 10:55 AM
  o Matthew Maury ES, Mon-Fri, starting April 15th at 8:10: 9:00 and 10 AM

  – Alexandria Earth Day, Saturday, April 28, 10 AM to 2 PM. Eldon Boes

  o Bike Train Volunteers needed
  o BPAC – Alexandria Spokeswomen table planned

  – Bike to Work Day (18 May) – Shared BPAC-Alexandria Spokeswomen tables. Additional volunteers needed. Alexandria Pit Stops and current volunteer line-up:

  o Old Town Market Square: Jen, Jim (Emcees); Eldon
  o John Carlyle Square: Casey (Emcee)
  o Del Ray Colasanto Park, 2704 Mount Vernon Ave: Dave Levy
  o Fairlington Centre (New), 1711 Centre Plaza – in front of Great Harvest Bread

  – “Bike Everywhere Month” – Themed Bike Ride volunteers: Ken, Judd, Josephine, Jake, Zack, Casey and possibly Andrea K

• Commission Liaison and Outreach
  – Commission on Aging and DASH Board – David Kaplan
  – Environmental Policy Commission – Eldon Boes
  – Parks and Recreation Commission – Dave Levy with Eliz Wright
  – Traffic and Parking Board -Casey Kane
  – Transportation Commission – Jake Jakubek
• Public Comments:

Bike and Pedestrian Calendar – Please join us at one or more events!

• Monday, April 23rd, “Are Alexandria’s “Complete Streets” creating complete confusion?” Agenda: Alexandria program at the Hermitage, 5000 Fairbanks Ave., Alexandria, VA 22311.
  – Time: 6:30 pm – Reception, 7:15 pm – Program begins. 9:00 pm – Program ends.
  – https://agendaalexandria.com/42318-2/
• Wednesday, April 25 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Frederick and Diana Prince Livable Communities Leadership Award Reception, TICO Restaurant, 1926 14th St NW, Washington DC 20009
  – http://www.smartergrowth.net/livablecommunities/
• Thursday, April 26, 6 to 8 PM Community Health Assessment Kickoff – Creating a community vision for Health in Alexandria, First Baptist Church , 2932 King Street, Alexandria
  – RSVP to healthmatters@vdh.virginia.gov
• Saturday, April 28, 10 AM to 2 PM Alexandria Earth Day Celebration, “Local Action, Global Impact”, at the Lenny Harris Memorial Fields at Braddock Park, 1005 Mt. Vernon Ave.
  – https://www.alexandriava.gov/EarthDay
• Saturday, May 5th, 9 AM Bike Rodeo in Arlandria sponsored by Mt Vernon Community School. Contact Eldon Boes (boes509@comcast.net) if you can help!
• May 14th Monday, 7 pm – BPAC monthly meeting in the Bradlee Safeway Community Room
  – Guest Speaker: Daphne Kott, Design Division Chief, City of Alexandria, Department of Project Implementation
• Friday May 18th Bike to Work Day. Register here: http://www.biketoworkmetrodc.org/
• Sunday, May 20th, 11am-1pm, 5th Annual Women on a Roll: Wonder Women! Girls, women, and women-identified persons invited. If interested, contact Andrea Hamre ahamre@gmail.com!
• Additional Bike Rodeos:
  – Friday June 8th at James K. Polk Elementary School
  – Saturday June 9th at Matthew Maury Elementary School
  – Saturday in June (TBD) at Charles Barrett Elementary School.

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